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Called the Triplex Holster, it essentially is a simple snap-in device to hold your Treo 650 - screen side out.

Now … we don’t know just what the heck this design is suppose to accomplish other than holding your expensive Treo 650 up in an optimum position to get its screen totally wasted … but if [...]

HP broke out news on the Malaysian availablity of its hw6515 Mobile Messenger July 2005 at RM2,888 (approx. $760) a pop. The phone number you see below is the HP Online Store, Malaysia.

Although it’s been rather quiet here in PDA-1, but we have been keeping tabs on the rumor mill. And here’s our take on the scene running up to 2006 - maybe y’all could call this yet another PDA-1 prediction:
PDA phones will continue their fierce stomp up the ranks amongst handheld devices and become the preferred [...]

Barely days after their launch of the LifeDrive, and palmOne is already fielding talk of other models to beef up its Mobile Manager sub-brand.
… PalmOne hopes to create a whole family of devices based on the LifeDrive. “This is just the first in a new genre of products” …
- Stephane Maes, director of product management, [...]

Okay now that the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system - formerly codenamed Magneto - is officially launched by none other than Chairman Gates himself, what can we expect from the device manufacturers?
Two of them are certain: Samsung announced that its hard-drive smartphone the SGH-i300 will be Windows Mobile 5.0 powered, and HTC does the same [...]

Hey everybody, it’s been a slow week or so on PDA news, most if not all concentrating on software releases (which we don’t really cover), some pointless ramblings about a Zire 73 (which we all know are just website traffic stunts for now), and the yet-to-see-light Tungsten X from palmOne - or is the LifeDrive [...]

Brighthand has word of Dell’s future plans for its Axim handheld lineup, which according to its source would include what could be a PDA phone model in 2006 and a multimedia powerhouse with a built-in hard drive in the nearer future (this Fall ‘05).
Read the rest in Brighthand’s article.

A Trojan horse has been created that causes smart phones to crash, security software maker F-Secure has warned.
The Finnish company posted details of the Trojan horse, which they’ve named Fontal.A, on Wednesday. Fontal.A affects Nokia Series 60 handsets running the Symbian operating system. The advisory did not say whether any infections had been reported.
- excerpt [...]

Ever since news broke that i-mate is setting up shop in US, we had been real curious if this will lead to better pricing of these two hot models. So Da Boss made some pricing enquiries with one of the appointed distributors for i-mate’s products, Portable Add-ons USA of Fountain Valley, CA and came up [...]

We are not exactly sure what the guy from Microsoft was talking about, but in a video interview at the recent CTIA Wireless show with CNET’s William O’Neal, he mentioned that the i-mate JAM then held by Mr. O’Neal comes with WiFi … but no demo on that. Listen carefully to what the Microsoft rep [...]